Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [11461/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Officials in the Citizenship Division of my Department inform me that there is no record of an application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question

Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11489/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended, provides that the Minister may grant a certificate of naturalisation if, among other things, the applicant has been resident in the State for five years in the nine year period before the date of application i.e. 60 months and has one year's continuous residency immediately preceding the date of application. For the purpose of calculating this residency, no period may be taken into account where a non-Irish national :- - was required to have the permission of the Minister to remain in the State but did not have that permission or - had permission to remain for the purpose of study (whether or not such study necessitated the employment of the non-national during the whole or part of the period of study) or - had permission to remain for the purpose of seeking to be recognised as a refugee (within the meaning of the Refugee Act, 1996) where such application was either unsuccessful or withdrawn.

An examination of her permissions as evidenced by stamps placed in her passport by an immigration officer indicated that the person concerned did not meet the necessary criteria at the time she applied. I have asked my officials to re-issue the letter of 29 September 2009 along with the document showing the calculation of residency.